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India, A Filha do Sol (Fabio Barreto) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Pra Prente, Brasil (Roberto Farias) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Pura Sangre (Luis Ospina) [MORE] [ADD] |
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A proxima vitima (Jose Batista de Andrede) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Memorias do carcere (Nelson Pereira dos Santos) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Verdes Anos (Carlos Gerbase, Giba Assis Brasil) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Endless Dream (Lauro Escorel Filho) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Fulaninha (David Neves) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Opera du malandro (Ruy Guerra) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Vera (Sergio Toledo) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Walter Salles' Central do Brasil (Central Station), which tells the story of the relationship between an old woman and a street orphan, is released. Fernanda Montenegro and Vinicius de Oliveira star. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 30/8 - | Fernando Meirelles' Cidade de Deus (City of God) is released. Telling a grim, fast-paced story of gang wars in the Brazilian slums, the film stars Phelipe Haagensen, Matheus Nachtergaele and Alexandre Rodrigues. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Daniel Filho's If I Were You 2 breaks the country’s record for a domestic film’s opening weekend, earning 5.6 million reals (£1.635 million). The comedy sequel stars Tony Ramos and Gloria Pires as a bickering couple who gain a better understanding of one another when they temporarily swap bodies. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 19/6 - | Jean Charles, Henrique Goldman’s film about the killing of Jean Charles De Menezes’ by British police who had mistaken him for a suicide bomber, receives its’ premiere in Menezes’ home town of Gonzaga. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 21/6 - | Claudio Torres’s local romantic comedy A Mulher Invisivel, in which Selton Mello imagines a relationship with a perfect woman after his wife leaves him, beats Terminator Salvation into second place at the box office. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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The release of Fabio Barreto’s Lula, the Son of Brazil, a biopic of the country’s incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, gives rise to complaints of political propaganda in an election year – despite the fact that the president is not standing for re-election. [MORE] |
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A restored print of the groundbreaking avant-garde film Limite (1930) receives a screening at the World Cinema Foundation Festival in Brooklyn, USA. Restoration of the film, described by Cinemateca Brasileira as the greatest Brazilian film ever made, and once in danger of real being lost, began in 1959. It was director Mário Peixoto’s only film. [ADD] |
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